Warner caves in, will sell tunes without copy protection

In today's Austin Statesman, a story about Warner's announcement that it will sell unprotected MP3s of its entire catalog, at first only through Amazon.com.

In February, when Apple CEO Steve Jobs penned an essay calling on record labels to drop Digital Rights Management from tracks sold on the company's iTunes Store, (Warner chair Edgar) Bronfman shot back during a conference call with Wall Street analysts: "We will not abandon DRM nor services that are successfully implementing DRM for both content and consumers."

Safety First

"Safety First" -- a comedy short by Scott Calonico that slays me every single time. If you like it, please register at Funny or Die and help vote the video up the charts.

Super Mario's Sleigh Ride

For those of you who need your holidays and video games mashed together.

Trajan is the movie font

OK, this is pretty funny. 99% of moviegoers out there won't have even thought about this, but I'll confess -- I noticed. I didn't know the name of the font, but I knew it was being overused.

[via Daring Fireball]

This one's for Dr. Freex

Pug vs. Peacock.

Erickson Sports - Wii Bowling Championships

John C. Reilly - Walks Hard, Rocks Hard

John C. Reilly was in town to rock the legendary Stubb's BBQ as Dewey Cox, the subject of Jake Kasdan's new film Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story. I got a chance to see the film and the performance, and both were excellent. See the full report over at Slackerwood along with some video of the concert.